I recently subscribed to MacFixIt.com’s RSS feed instead of visiting the web page. There’s something wrong with that feed, though. When I double-click on an article in NetNewsWire to read it in Safari, I get redirected to the site’s home page.

It looks like it’s a problem with the article URLs. To give an example, the URL for one recent article included in the RSS feed is:

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php/20040823084353623

whereas the correct URL actually is:

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20040823084353623

It’s hard to believe that no one at MacFixIt.com has noticed this.

This entry was posted by Pierre Igot
on Tuesday, August 24th, 2004 at 2:58 am and is filed under Macintosh.
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One Response to “MacFixIt.com: RSS feed links redirected to home page”

I emailed them about the same issue (although I didn’t nail it down to the exact syntax, which is probably why) and never got a response. I hope you have more luck. A lot of sites producing feeds don’t seem to actually “drink the kool-aid” themselves.